May 22, 2020

While William the Conqueror was fighting the Bretons, an enemy aimed his axe at his head. One of William’s companions saved him by interposing his shield between the axe & William’s head. The axe landed into the the shield, which did not yield. William was saved! This shield was then celebrated and the name DUR ÉCU (strong shield in old French) was given to strongholds which mission was to protect Normandy.

May 4, 2020

Allfather * took Night, and Day her son, and gave to them two horses and two chariots, and sent them up into the heavens, to ride round about the earth every two half-days. Night rides before with the horse named Frosty-Mane, […] The horse that Day has is called Sheen-Mane, and he illumines all the air and the earth from his mane.

June 21, 2019

Run laughing towards the serpent’s jaws, where England meets the sea Breathe in the old dreams of the dead that travel on the winds A taste of salt, of love, of things left unsaid, undone A face like sunlight that burns my eyes and my soul That haunts and comforts, whispers of what could have been In broken days that lie beneath a broken tree I call to no one or to the gods, who never reply The years that have melted away, and a future like a sickness waits to destroy I will drown in the blood of summer